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...Frankfurt, a German girl discussed Stalin's peaceful hints. Said she wistfully: "Every time the Russians talk like that my heart jumps with hope ... I know, I know. But I can't help it if the Russians know the way my heart works." The point was that she knew better than what her heart told her. Except for the willfully blind and the incurably credulous, few of the world's people could any longer believe in what the Russians promised, any more than they could believe in dry water or wooden iron...
...Military Government slapped Editor Foss down. It apparently saw no reason for a free press in the "American tradition" in a country that had no such tradition and was not free. An investigation of Die Neue Zeitung's policies and staffers was ordered. General Clay, visiting in Frankfurt, was told that Foss had said the paper had been "too much of a lecturer with a raised forefinger," but was now to be regarded "as a forum." Snapped Clay: "It was never the former, and it is not going to be the latter." He ordered Foss to stick...
During the war Guido was drafted into the Italian army, was later packed off by the Germans to a labor camp in Frankfurt. When he got home, he weighed only 80 pounds. Now married and heavier, quick-humored Guido is delighted with his chance to work with the NBC Symphony, though still somewhat bashful about his performance. Said he last week: "With this orchestra, there is no impassable level. If I could only express myself in English, I think I could get more from them...
...they have been plentiful. Though she was not decorated by the Russians when she gave a festival in Moscow in 1931, she has the Legion of Honor from France and Belgium's Order of the Crown and Order of Leopold. She was also made an honorary citizen of Frankfurt in times when that distinction was more highly regarded than at present. A long list of honorary degrees from American colleges completes the roster...
...cause of the turmoil was Law 75, promulgated in Frankfurt last fortnight by the Anglo-U.S. military commanders in Bizonia, Generals Sir Brian Robertson and Lucius D. Clay. Law 75 transfers ownership of the Ruhr coal, iron and steel industries to temporary German trustees, and provides that when a freely elected democratic German government is able to do so, it shall decide the question of private or public ownership. The reason given for Law 75 was that the promise of eventual German ownership would raise morale among German workers and managers, and therefore raise production...